I’m always on the lookout for run inspirations. But many Shadowrun missions were hit or miss

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    5 months ago

    Waterdeep: Dragonheist was pretty rough. There isn’t a lot of player choice, and there’s a ten scene railroad where the macguffin is yoinked away from the players at the end of each scene.

    War of the Burning Sky was similarly linear.

    So far I like some of missions in Tales of Night City.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah! That’s the one. The Cyberpunk RED subreddit has some good remixes of the missions.

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          In general the impression I have from reading various sources is that Cyberpunk missions are good sources

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            The Cyberpunk mission format encourages authors to make less linear scenarios. It reminds the author that multiple paths are to be expected.

            Having said that, I have a hard time with Kibble Flavoured Popcorn and Drummer and the Whale from Tales of the Red because scenes aren’t tied together well, or some scenes don’t require the players to do anything.

            This is where the remixes come in. Seasoned GMs can easily improve individual scenes while keeping the shape of the adventure.